A decision on New Zealand's refugee quota is "imminent", says Prime Minister Jacinda, who herself wants the current quota increased.
However, National's Simon Bridges said Ms Ardern needs to "sort it" before she leaves for the US later this week, with discrepancies between the Government partners a barrier to finding consensus on the issue.
The Government partners have vastly different views on New Zealand's refugee quota, with Labour pledging to raise it to 1500 and the Green Party aiming for a quota of 5000.
"If you look at the Prime Minister's rhetoric she's made great play about being a globalist, a progressive with soaring rhetoric on these issues," Mr Bridges told media today.
"It's all very well to do the photo ops, the international pieces, but when you've got important questions like this back home that... [are] now are up in the air because of a lack of unanimity and cohesion."
Ms Ardern said she personally wants the quota to increase.
However, earlier this month NZ First's Winston Peters told media the focus needs to be on New Zealanders struggling at home.
"We have 50,000 people who are homeless back home and I can show you parts of Northland where people are living in degradation," he said from Nauru.
Mr Bridges said if the announcement on the refugee quota was lower than 1500 it would demonstrate "Winston Peters undermining the Prime Minister".
He did not think the refugee quota should be increased as he thought "1000 is right".
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